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Tech Tip #169: What is Digital Literacy?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are the sixteen transformative tools, activities, and/or knowledge bases digitally-literate students should be comfortable using: annotation tool. digital citizenship. digital class calendar. digital databases. sharing digitally to build knowledge. social media.

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How to Build Your PLN

Ask a Tech Teacher

When a colleague tells you she heard about a new tech tool from someone in her PLN, do you first wonder what she’s talking about–not the tool but the three-letter acronym? The engine of a PLN is social media. These are the same tools your students use (or aspire to use) to communicate with each other.

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3 ways to be a better digital citizen, online and IRL

eSchool News

It has become such a part of what we do and who we are that it become to be defined as a sort of “digitalcitizenship. So what describes a digital citizen? These tools have increased our productivity and knowledge base in many ways (checking the weather, looking up facts), but these advantages come with a price.

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Fake news: Fact or opinion?

Kathy Schrock

[link] Creative Commons license: [link] The Digital Classroom Starter Kit from Common Sense Education provides digital citizenship activities and lessons as part of their classroom technology use ideas. You can visit their News and Media Literacy units here.